DOHA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s discussion with two prominent Qatar government leaders was rooted primarily on the Palestine-Israel conflict and touched on the current development in Gaza. Anwar, in a statement via X on Monday (May 13), said both countries agreed that everyone needs to play a significant …

DUBAI (Reuters) – A government research institute in the United Arab Emirates on Monday released a new open source GenAI model, which could rival the ones from big technology companies. Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute (TII) said it was releasing the Falcon 2 series: Falcon 2 11B, a text-based model, …

(Reuters) – The wild card coming into this week’s PGA Championship was not Scottie Scheffler but his wife Meredith, who had the golf world on baby watch wondering if her world number one husband would be at Valhalla Golf Club for the year’s second major. That suspense ended with reports …

(Reuters) – SpaceX is building launch facilities, office buildings and even a shopping center in rural Texas, as billionaire Elon Musk’s space venture rapidly expands its rocket and satellite business across the Lone Star state. But a Reuters review of Texas property records shows that SpaceX and its contractors can …

(Reuters) – Tottenham Hotspur are not concerned about the Premier League title race between Manchester City and Arsenal and see Tuesday’s game against City as a challenge to measure themselves against the best, manager Ange Postecoglou said. Second-placed City are trying to pip Arsenal who are a point ahead having …

DOHA: Estithmar Holding and Baladna are among Qatar’s largest companies by market capitalisation that attended a roundtable meeting hosted by Malaysia’s Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI). Established in 2014, Baladna, a public shareholding company, is Qatar’s largest dairy and beverage producer, supplying over 95% of the country’s fresh …

KOTA KINABALU: Thirty-three years after being detained for 26 months under the now-repealed Internal Security Act (ISA), Datuk Seri Dr Jeffrey Kitingan insists there was never a plot for Sabah to secede from Malaysia. Kitingan claimed that his detention from May 13, 1991 under the ISA was politically motivated by …

(Reuters) – Shares of GameStop jumped 40% in premarket trading on Monday after social media persona “Roaring Kitty,” whose online posts had sparked a trading frenzy in the videogame retailer in 2021, returned on X.com after three years. Keith Gill, known as “Roaring Kitty” on YouTube and “DeepF***ingValue” on Reddit, …

KUALA LUMPUR: The statements made by Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali were “Dark and nasty”, said a witness in the defamation suit filed by egg importing company J&E Advance Tech Sdn Bhd against the former minister. Businessman Deepak Jaikishan, 52, said Azmin’s statements at a political talk on March 11 …

TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s public prosecutor extended on Monday the detention of two journalists, while lawyers began a one-day strike to protest against the arrest of a prominent critic of the president, amid a growing political crisis in the country. Tunisian police stormed the building of the deanship of lawyers …